Leadership Lessons from an Irish Captain at Sea
A grounded memoir for readers drawn to leadership under pressure, this traces Marie Gleeson’s path through the Irish Navy and beyond. Its strength is practical rather than polished: lessons from command, crisis and personal challenge become useful reflections on resilience, change and courage.
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Be Like the Sea: Life, Learnings and Leadership from an Irish Navy Captain
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Leadership Lessons from an Irish Captain at Sea
A grounded memoir for readers drawn to leadership under pressure, this traces Marie Gleeson’s path through the Irish Navy and beyond. Its strength is practical rather than polished: lessons from command, crisis and personal challenge become useful reflections on resilience, change and courage.
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‘The one thing you can’t fully control in a ship is the water all around you, so part of your plan is always reading and analysing the currents and the tides. You have a clear image in your head of how you think the ship will perform in the prevailing conditions. But this time something isn't going the way we had planned it …’ As a farmer’s daughter in the country’s largest landlocked county, Marie Gleeson’s unusual career choice took her into uncharted waters.
Working her way up from gruelling bootcamp training to leading a drug interdiction operation seizing €700 million of cocaine from a yacht off the Kerry coast, she was a leader among men and rose to every challenge. Developing a love of the sea, Marie learned that to be at one with it required agility, and a willingness to change, to go with the wind – not against it.
These lessons prepared her for operating without a life raft when her personal life threw her the greatest challenge of all. Be Like the Sea is the inspiring story of what happens when we overcome our own self-imposed physical, mental and emotional limitations, and a blueprint for charting our own unique path in life.
Ideal for readers who:
- Reach for inspiring memoirs centred on authentic leadership, public service and high-stakes resilience.
- Value true, powerful stories of women breaking new ground in traditionally demanding careers.
- Seek fascinating details about the Irish Navy, command pressure and the realities of life at sea.
- Appreciate practical, deeply reflective writing about adapting and finding strength through personal crisis.
- About The Author
- Marie Gleeson is a former captain in the Irish Navy. She is celebrated for her ability to translate her military experiences into valuable lessons for business and the real world.
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- ISBN
- 9781804584491
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Gill Books, (28 May 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 288
- Weight
- 311 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 156 mm
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